If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Lyndon B. Johnson
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- We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
- I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
- The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
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- Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.